Comedian Quotes

My problem with being in New York City is that you really can't make a living as a comedian. You can, but you have to also take writing jobs, which means less stage time.

I always made people laugh, and everybody wanted me to sit at the table with them. I don't joke as much as I used to, but I can still be a little comedian every now and then.

Pakistan hasn't been cast in the role of... interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians.

I'm not a comedian. I don't make things funny if they're not funny. I don't invent funny stuff.

In general, comedians are attracted to vice.

Although I'm a comedian, I'm also an amateur survivalist.

I don't want to follow comedians because I don't want to see what they're thinking about, 'cause then maybe I won't stumble across a thought maybe I had about the same subject.

If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

Comedians are the most challenging people for me to shoot. Because you're not actually in the dialogue with them, they are performing. When I work with a comedian, I become their audience.

Appurv Gupta brings you a unique point of view that no other comedian in India does. Well worth a watch.

I come from the stage. I started my career as a stand-up comedian and then later on became an actor.

Any comedian who tells you how dark and dangerous they are, they're not dark and dangerous.

In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing.

Before doing my first open mic, I was sitting in the back watching all these comedians banter back and forth and fire jokes and up each other, and I thought, This is where I wanna be.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

Here's what I'm afraid of. I know a lot of comedians, friends of mine, who just got into the "Doesn't matter what I say. It doesn't matter. They're just gonna laugh anyway."

I think having an outsider's viewpoint is interesting and good, especially for a comedian.

Some performers are brilliant comedians, some are genius musicians, and some just make you happy to be alive. THE BOBS are all of that - and then some.

As a comedian, I'm like one of those on-the-scene reporters. I will actually go and try to find disasters so I can write jokes as the disasters unfold.

I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.

You don't have to be inspired by comedians. You have to be inspired by things that are real, whether it's music, comedy...a movie - that should inspire you.

You have to go away to come back. That's just normal. That's with bands, actors, comedians, everything.

I'm the only comedian qualified to navigate a supertanker.

If I want to keep working as an actor, I'm going to become a comedian who does fart jokes.

If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.

Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.

I love it when artists talk about process! I love the movie Comedian.

We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.

Good comedians are great philosophers.

I usually just say I'm a stand-up comedian, but I use looping machines to create ideas with my voice.

Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) is a gimmick comedian who has devoted her short career to being obese and obnoxious with equal success.

I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't know they could until now.

If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life.

I'm a comedian at the beginning and the end of the day. I'm not affiliated with any campaign, nor do I generally find politics interesting enough to plan to be involved.

Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh.

I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos.

I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.

I think for comedians, acting is their natural progression. It's all about progression.

A poet or a comedian can say what's on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh. It may be so truthful that it hurts, but it makes you laugh.

Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

There's a very fine line between political comedian and activist, and I don't really think I fall over into the activist category.

I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22.

Certain comedians work with certain actors; like Adam Sandler worked with Jack Nicholson.

I've never considered myself a comedian. I'm a comedic actor.

In the '80s especially, a lot of comedians felt compelled to stick with what made them famous and those people became caricatures.

We live in a fun time with so many ways to express yourself, you would be crazy to be a comedian and not check them all out.

I'm a total one-hour drama addict. I think when you're a comedian, you tend towards dramas because that's the less stressful thing to watch.

I just think of myself as a comedian, really.

Your average comedian doesn't know the podcast universe, really.

I've been doing comedies but I'm not a comedian.